I live in Virginia Beach Virginia and I saw my first Tesla s today it was gorgeous I am now building my third electric project it will be a 20 foot boat designed to go in the ocean with a two-and-a-half-hour range w/ an emergency generator on board just in case I miss judge my range On Mar 6, 2014 4:04 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
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Re: Spielberg drives his Tesla to work (Bruce EVangel Parmenter) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2014 10:17:24 -0800 > From: Bruce EVangel Parmenter <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [EVDL] Spielberg drives his Tesla to work > Message-ID: > <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain > > [ref > > http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/EVLN-Billionaire-Spielberg-drives-his-Tesla-S-to-high-powered-lunch-tp4668246.html > EVLN: Billionaire Spielberg drives his Tesla-S to high-powered lunch > ] > > The above news piece mentions that of all the vehicles an ultra wealthy > person could get, he chose a Tesla. > > I have posted in the past of the ultra expensive EVs, but with little > readership response from either the evdl members or from outside lurkers > that find what I post on the evdl nabble archive. Spielberg could easily > drive an EV that is worth five to ten times more than Tesla-S, but chose > to drive what is hip in Hollywood right now, a Tesla-S (if you can > afford it). Perhaps there is a high price to pay for being that wealthy, > and driving a Tesla, allows him the luxury of being treated more that a > regular person (?). > > ... > And that caveat, if you can afford it, is important. > A few days before I made the above post, I was out-n-about getting some > tasks done (a weekly occurrence for me, as now an ol' guy: I do not get > out as much as before), when I saw more and more Leaf EVs all around me. > They were on the road turning left in front of me, parked in the parking > structure and parking lots, at the shopping center, ... it was exciting > to see. > > I had previously posted that the hi-tech and bio-medical companies near > me on the northern edge of Silicon Valley had discounted employee > EV-lease deals that made it just too affordable to pass up. So, I could > drive around their parking lots and see beau-coup EVs and other plugins. > And although the SF Bay are is dotted with a mixture of both affluent > and get-your-hands-dirty working-class communities/cities, there were > few Tesla's and mostly plugins in the $40k range (Leaf or Focus EVs, or > a Volt or Energi pih). > > The (caveat) point being it is natural that there are going to be more > of the lower cost/more-affordable plugins on the road than Tesla's > current price range. I really look forward to seeing Tesla-E's out all > around me as well. > > ... > Sometimes it is hard for an EVangel to restrain the EV-zeal. I had > mentioned that the deep-blue Leaf street-parked in front of a Hospital > building to a passerby (he happened to be a 30-something Latino man). He > smiled as he had no idea what it was, surprised they were at a more > affordable price than the $100k Tesla prices he knew/heard of, and was > pleased they were out in society. > > But my day ended on a lesser note, as a man and wife came into the > grocery store parking lot in a beautiful new huge-puffy GM truck. The > kind that serves double duty as both a work vehicle (cargo capability in > the back), and extended cab for carrying the family around (like an > SUV). This type of vehicle is king in the Latino community (there is a > large Latino community where I am). > > As I was heading out, and they were coming in, I greeted him, breaking > the ice with how nice his ice looked, and he was polite. I mentioned > that there was an Electric Leaf in the parking lot, hoping to only > briefly make him aware of the Electric revolution going on around him, > and then quickly let him go about his business. Although he said "oh?", > he immediately got his business card out of the truck, and handed it to > me, telling me of his tree trimming service (like if this old-guy is > going to talk to/bother me, I am going to make it worth my time by > promoting my small business). I continued to smile and we party > cordially, him thinking I would bring him more business, but me thinking > too-bad he could care less about Electrics. > > His business was successful enough for him to afford a new GM > work/family vehicle. So, he could easily afford a plugin. But is there a > plugin vehicle that not only fits their daily life's needs, but would be > acceptable to peer-pressure. > > If you think about, the working-man's/person's vehicle market has not > been tapped at all for plugins. Huge vehicles scream the need for a > plug-in-hybrid design. What would make more sense than to have a better > fuel mileage work/family truck or SUV pih with at least a 50mi e-range? > ... > > Well, an EVangel can only hope that I will live long enough to see that > market cracked wide open to plugins as well. > > > {brucedp.150m.com} > > > > - > On Thu, Mar 6, 2014, at 09:13 AM, K O wrote: > > More impressive to me was the White Tesla S I spotted parked across from > > Grocery Outlet in Concord, California, not your usual upscale haunt! The > > first Tesla I have ever seen in Concord! It is a good thing! > - > > -- > http://www.fastmail.fm - Same, same, but different... > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] > For general EVDL support, see http://evdl.org/help/ > http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org > > > End of EV Digest, Vol 17, Issue 8 > ********************************* > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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